From November 5th to the 7th the ‘International Conference on Fresh Water Governance for Sustainable Development’ will be held in Central Drakensburg, South Africa. Organized by the Water Research Commission and the South African Department of Wa…


From November 5th to the 7th the ‘International Conference on Fresh Water Governance for Sustainable Development’ will be held in Central Drakensburg, South Africa. Organized by the Water Research Commission and the South African Department of Wa…

Who is the Mekong? World class photographer, Ian Taylor, tries to answer the question here. Read the original

The Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy In December, 2011, we held the first Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy In Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Discussions here centered on how to develop, manage and operate hydropower in ways that help nations realize…
We are proud to announce the launch of the first paper in our ‘state of knowledge’ (SOK) series. Authored by Ilse Pukinskis and Kim Geheb (both with CPWF-Mekong) the paper explores what is known (and what is not known) about the impact of dams on t…

The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) is currently working with innovation platforms to improve the resilience of rural livelihoods in the Ethiopian highlands through a landscape approach to rainwater management (RWM). Rainwater management interv…